Staple holding tool



Jan. 10, 1961 c. J. WISE STAPLE'HOLDING TOOL 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Oct. 13, 1958 INVENTOR. CO) J W/SE ATTORNEY Jan. 10, 1961 c. J. WISE I STAPLE HOLDING TOOL 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed 001:. 13, 19 58 INVENTOR. CO) J WISE A TTORNE Y United States Patent STAPLE HOLDING TOOL Coy J. Wise, RR. 2, Box 159C, Vale, Oreg.

Filed Oct. 13, 1958, Ser. No. 766,964

1 Claim. (Cl. 1-49.8)

This invention relates to a tool particularly adapted for use in handling, positioning and stapling barbed wire without the necessity of using a multiplicity of implements.

The invention further comprehends the provision of a structure for use in handling, positioning and stapling barbed wire without the necessity of using a multiplicity of implements and which is also capable of use for undoing wire splices, repairing ends of wire, holding wire while splicing, positioning wire to insulators, pulling cotter keys used in securing insulators to an iron post and similar uses.

The invention further comprehends a tool designed to accomplish the foregoing objects which has its parts so constructed and arranged that it can be used in removing staples by a single operation and without displacement of the staple during the operation.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device having parts so constructed and arranged as to simultaneously hold barbed wire and staples while the latter are being driven.

Another object of the invention is to provide handle terminals having parts suitable for facilitating the digging out of sunken tack or nail heads and pulling the same, or for holding tacks, roofing nails and small staples such as are used for fastening chicken wire.

These and other objects of the invention will more clearly hereinafter appear by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part of the instant specification and wherein like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of one side of a wire working tool embodying a hinged side member for pulling double headed nails used in electric stock wire;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the opposite side of the tool;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the tool;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary elevation corresponding to Fig. 1 showing the jaws in open position;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary elevation corresponding to Fig. 2 showing the jaws in open position;

Fig. 6 is a section taken on line 6-6 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 7 is a section taken on line 7-7 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 8 is a section taken on line 8-8 of Fig. 1.

The invention comprises a pair of pivoted members, the top or outer member, as viewed in Fig. 1, comprising a head 1, a handle portion 2, and a terminal portion 3. The head portion includes a reduced neck portion 4, an enlarged head having laterally offset rounded portion 5, and an oppositely projecting terminal hook or claw 6. The terminal hook or claw 6 is pointed for insertion under a staple, the point being defined by a fiat wall 7 and the downwardly tapered face 8. The flat horizontal wall 7 projects inwardly and connects with the generally vertical flat face 9, the walls 7 and face 9 at their junction defining a right angle as at 10. The face or surface 9 is interrupted by semi-circular recesses 11, 12 and 14,

the semi-circular recesses being generally equally spaced throughout the wall surface 9. Below the reduced neck 4 is the enlarged hinged area 15 formed with an opening ice other half of the assembly to be hereinafter described.

The handle portion 2 is bowed outwardly as is conventional in instruments of thistype and terminates in a fiat tapered upwardly inclined head 20, the tapered head portion 20 having a series of spaced recesses 21, 22, 23 and 24, and an arcuate recess 26. The junction 60 of handle 2 and head 3 provides a fulcrum point. Immediately below the pivotal'portion of the member in 'question are a pair of spaced lugs 30 and 31 formed with axially aligned recesses 32 and 33 for receiving a pivot pin 34 (see Fig. 6). This pivot pin 34 mounts an elongated flat bar 37 having a wedge terminal or blade portion 38 mounted for movement on the pivot pin 34 from the flat position shown in Fig. 2 to an open position which may be generally at right angles to the body of the tool section upon which it is mounted.

Referring to Fig. 2, the second section of the assembly includes a jaw portion 40 formed at its upper extremity with arcuate face 41 and inner fiat face 42, the fiat face 42 being adapted to abut the flat face 9 of the first section of the structure and to lie flush therewith. The fiat face 42 of the jaw portion 40 is provided with small slots or recesses 43 which are so positioned that when the jaw faces 9 and 42 are in abutting association the small slots 43' will be centered with respect to the relatively large notches 11, 12 and 14 of the first half of the assembly. The upper extremity or point 44 of the jaw portion 40 terminates at the junction of the walls 7 and 9 of the first section and the curved outer surface 41 of the terminal portion 40 and therefore allows the projectinghook 6 to be readily inserted under a driven staple.

An arcuate hook 45 extends from the outer curved surface of the jaw portion 40 and generally medially of its width, inwardly and downwardly of the head and is adapted to be associated with an upwardly and similarly shaped hook member 46 on the undersurface of head 5 of the first section of the structure. These curved hook portions 45 and 46 are transversely aligned to define an oval opening 47 shown in Fig. 3, and the arcuate faces thereof shown at 48 and 49 provide surfaces capable of engaging wires during assembly and during the securing of the wire by staples, the staple legs being adapted to be positioned in the slots 11 and 12 which are positioned above and below the opening 47 through which the wire projects. I

As in the first described section of the tool a hinge rivet opening 16 (see Fig. 3) is provided for alignment with the rivet opening 16 of the other section for the reception of a pivotal connection such as a rivet shank, as shown. The outer face of the medial riveted section of the member is also provided with a notch defined by arcuate wall 50 and angle wall 51, the latter defining a cutting area for association with the cutting area 19 of the other tool section. As in the previous section, the handle portion 53 is bowed outwardly for convenient manipulation and terminates in a head 54 shaped identically with the head of the other section and also similarly notched by notches 21, 22 23 and 24*, these notches being adapted to register when the heads 20 and 54 are in abutting association to form recesses for handling nails, tacks, small staples and the like. The extremities of the heads 20 and 54 are both formed with inclined faces 55 defining a cutting edge 56 which is used for prying out fasteners that have been seated.

The use of the present device is manyfold, the heavy hook terminal 6 defined by the curved outer wall 8 and the-flat inner wall 7 being particularly adaptable for jacking, sunken fasteners without'slippage, the curvedarea of the opposing jaw 40 providing a cam and permitting a jamming of the fastener during its extraction. This same' head of the tool is also adaptable for use in cutting wire and securingwire and the hooks 45 and 46 permit the bending of a strand of wire while the legs of a staple are positioned in the recesses 11 and 12. The position of the recesses 11 and 12 is such that a wire passing through the opening 47 defined by the hooks 45 and 46 would be centrally positioned and properly associated to permit the driving of a staple. By this means a wire could be cut, twisted or bent, held between the hooks 45 and 46, the staple positioned with its legs in the recesses 11 and 12 and the latter driven. Obviously the jaws when partially opened will misalign the hooks 45 and 46 tending thereby to clamp a strand of a wire which is being worked upon and the wire so frictionally held with the jaws partiallyopened will permit the insertion of the shanks of a staple in recesses 11 and 12.

The side hinge member 37 is used for removing double nails conventionally utilized in securing porcelain insulators, this member 37 being of a size permitting its insertion between the double heads without injury to the porcelain.

The use of the tool will be obvious to one skilled in the art. It is extremely difficult to handle barbed wire and the present tool comprehends an assembly by means of Which an old staplemay be removed by the hook 6. Inserting the end of the hook 6 under an old staple imbedded in a post is facilitated by the rounded face 41 of the adjacent jaw 40 to remove the staple when the hook 6 is under the same pressure as applied to the tool by the operator using the offset rounded portion as a cam. With the old staple removed, the wire section can be placed between the hooks 45 and 46 and these two jaws can be usedv for aligning the wire for receiving its staple and also for bending the wire to take up slack which might have been formed therein. When the, wire is properly tensioned and positioned, the legs of the staple will be extended through the recesses 11 and 12, 7 these recesses automatically positioning the staple to straddle the wire and when so positioned the staple can be readily driven home without the operator being subjected to injuries from the barbs on the wire structure. The hinged member 37 is an attachment for use in pulling the conventional double headed nails used in fastening electric stock wire to wooden posts. The use of this tool prevents breakage of the insulator. The structure at the handle terminals is designed for holding small staples in position for driving and also tacks and similar small fastenings, while the faces '55 are intended to facilitate the removal of such small fasteners.

What I claim is:

In a device of the character described, a pair of cross members including head portions and handle portions, said members being pivoted together intermediate the head portions and handle portions, one of said head portions terminating in a transversely extending end which overlies an adjacent outer curved face of the other head portion and both head portions having inner flat faces adapted for abutting association, the faces of one head portion being formed with spaced arcuate grooves, 0ppositely facing upstanding hooks fixed to the side faces of each of the head portions and transversely defining an aligned passage when the faces abut, the passage being located generally medially of the recesses whereby a length of Wire may be placed between the hooks and a staple held by the jaws and seated in the recesses in a straddling position with respect to the wire positioned by the hooks.

References Cit'ed in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 750,630 Feltus Jan. 26, 1904 1,792,837 Harrison Feb. 17, 1931 2,742,698 McGary et a1. Apr. 24, 1956 Tha n 

